Well, that's definitely going to send a message to publishers to keep doing it then. If publishers aren't seeing an increase in sales due to these tactics, but they are seeing an increase in Online Pass purchases, they'll keep doing it wherever possible. Might even become the norm.

Personally I didn't mind online passes until they started trespassing into the singer play realm. I was cool with the idea that second hand game players had to pay something too, to cover the costs of the online servers, but once they started using online passes on the single player games, this excuse of the publishers has gone out the window.

I usually don't buy my games used, but lately I have been tempted to do so as a way of fighting back against this unfair treatment of consumers.